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amboˈsexual, a.
[f. L. ambo both + sexual a.]
a. Of a group: composed of individuals of both sexes. rare—1.
1788Columbian Mag. Aug. 449/1 The next order of social beings which demands our attention, is the numerous and ambosexual order of tatlers.
b. Biol. Having characteristics of both sexes in a single individual; = intersexual a. 2.
1935in Dorland Med. Dict. 1970R. Reinboth in Benson & Phillips Hormones & Environment 515 In an ambosexual animal both male and female characteristics are associated normally in a single individual—either simultaneously or in a temporal succession. 1978Japanese Jrnl. Ichthyol. XXV. 101 Histological examination of gonads indicated that all individuals..are ambosexual as juveniles. 1982Gynécologie XXXIII. 25 These may be found in the majority of gonadal endocrine tumours, conferring them with latent or patent ambosexual or adrenocortical possibilities. |